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[ifd> E HOSPITAL OFFICERS NO
IIFIEW VS TO THEIR DUTIES.
\0 |S SLOWLY PROGRESSING.
Urfcy Feeling In New Orleans Caused
J... j port of New Cases—Serious
Situation at Other Points.
i Washington special says: Surgeon
Eera i Wyman has issued to marine
j,., ; tft l officers the following instruc
* their field of operations
[behalf defining
of the government in aid of
a-e authorities in dealing with ye.l
fever: Murray, charge all
•Surgeon in of
batters between Louisiana and Ala
“Surgeon Sawtelle, at Atlanta, in
of Georgia.
Carter in charge of New
and Louisiana.
■■Past Assistant Surgeon Glennan,
‘Mobile, in charge of Alabama, and
repared to establish a detention camp
Mobile.
“Past Assistant Surgeon Geddiugs,
-Past Assistant Surgeon Young, at
to aid Mississippi river in
and co-operate with local au
“Each officer is to wire daily, if pos
the number of cases and deaths
points in district.”
The advices received by Surgeon
Wyman Friday night in
clnded the following:
From Vicksburg, Miss., Dr. Hun
president of the state board of
reported that there had been
Due suspicious case at Nitta Yuma.
There is no one sick now.
Ti;<> fever situation in New Orleans
a more serious aspect Friday
nt any time since Sunday, when
the St. Claude cases were de
to be yellow fever. At 6 o’clock
ia the evening the board of health of
like city announced the appearance of
new cases, and of these one
path palth reports At the office considered of the board of
were some
pat surprising and disappointing.
ef Friday was one of the yellow hottest fever days
the month, and as
thrives in that character of weather,
there seems to have been a rapid
Ifim kelopment of germs. The physi
still feel, however, that there is
inch that is satisfactory in the situa¬
tion. It is true that the new cases re¬
torted represent the extreme upper,
|tie extreme lower and the central
of the city, but there has
->!i no serious spread from original
and the hopeful -opinion is still
that the disease may be
and that there is no imi
danger of an epidemic.
Secretary Patton, of the board, said
evening:
FORKING HOURS EXTENDED.
bn-Honr System Adopted by the D. L.
and XV. Railroad.
Advices from Scranton, Pa., state
the Delaware, Lackawanna and
''estern railroad has placed its several
kindred shop men in this city on ten
- ‘iirs time, an increase of two hours
1 aay over the time worked the last
"--t months.
MORE CHILDREN BURN.
» r o Family Lock Them In a House and j
■w,, r:“ao<, ;
Smi his si,,
j, ln 8 m the country near Donalds,
county, S. C., locked to
j- 51 ) - house six children, four of their
J^ and two visitors from a neigh
’Ve int V tin Tt!f eSt l I™? f T eighteeQ GU J ““The I
! ?n s T t0 chn Tf
-uhr, nr j ater neigh bor S v. heardfngW- J r • bt
. ^ ^ktenor ams coming °f whmh _ from was Smith m flames. s house,
• .c ;. ’ eS nerdc efforts to save
a children, ( but impossible to
' it was
--s 1 then, and they were cremated.
PRESIDENT WILL ACT.
The Shooting of Hogansvllle’s Postmaster
Will Result In Prosecution.
The attempted assassination of the
colored postmaster of Hogansville,
tia., has attracted the attention of the
whole country.
The shooting has aroused the gov
eminent authorities, and President
eflort McKinley himself is making a personal
to have the would-be assassins
of the negro punished.
District Attorney Augier announces
that he will prosecute ex-Postmater
Hardaway law to the fullest extent of the
for violating the postal laws.
It develops that the Hogansville
people had been told by the govern
ment authorities that they would lose
their postoffice if they did not raise
the boycott against Loftin.
The general opinion of the federal
authorities is that the shooting of
Loftin was the immediate result of the
visit of the postoffice inspector to
Ho 0 ans\ille somedays ago. I he in
spector went to Hogansville to mves
tigate the reported boycott. He found
on arriving there that the citizens had
not only boycotted Loftin, but were
running a postoffice of their own, with
ex-Postmaster Hardaway as their
postmaster.
The inspector called a meeting of
the citizens at his room at the Hogans¬
ville hotel. The business men of the
town responded and met the inspector,
who told them that they were violating
the law by operating a postoffice in
opposition to the regular legal office.
He further told them that they must
raise their boycott or lose the post
office altogether.
No attention was paid to the inspec¬
tor’s warning and his efforts to adjust
the trouble proved vain. When ” he
left they were still running the oppo¬
sition postoffice. A day later Loftin
was shot.
District Attorney Angier has re¬
ceived positive instructions from
Washington to prosecute the case.
ATKINSON CRITICIZES M’KINLEY.
Intimates That Fresident Is Aecessory
to Hogansville Crime.
Governor Atkinson, of Georgia, tel¬
egraphed the New York Herald, in
response to a request for his views on
the Loftin shooting, that President
McKinley is morally an accessary to
to crime cf the man who shot the Ho¬
gansville postmaster.
The governor does not defend the
crime of the would-be assassin, but
he blames the president for the condi¬
tion which brought it on.
The telegram was in response to a
request from The Herald for the gov¬
ernor’s views, and was substantially as
follows:
“The court will convene in that county
in November and the grand jury will inves¬
tigate the matter, and it there is evidence to
convict anyone there will be no trouble in
punishing the guilty party. The officers
are capable men and will do their duty.
The shooting of the negro i? universally
condemned by the people.
“The same spirit of candor in which I
have written compels me- to say that our
people are uniformly of the opinion that the
man who appointed the postmaster at
Hogansville over tho violent protest of
those citizens who furnish ninety-nine one
hundredths of the business of the office,
wno own almost the entire property of the
community and who represent the forces
which made and constitute the civilization
of the community, knowing at the time that
tho appointment would be taken as a delib¬
erate effort on his part to degrade and
humiliate them, was himself, from a moral
standpoint, an accessory to this lamentable
crime.
“Eventhese men, who took this view, do
not blame tho republican party foi giving
positions to the negroes who have been
faithful to them, but it would have been
better for the negroes and pleasanter for
the white people of the sonth if they had
given them positions where they were not
brought so directly in contact with the peo¬
ple to whom they are offensive as officers.
“You ask ine what is going to be the ef¬
fect of thi3. I reply that the effect will be
the same it would be iu Ohio if the same con¬
ditions prevailed. Leaving out the ques¬
tions arising from prejudice, what would be
the result in Ohio if the president, in mak¬
ing appointments, ignored the views of
property holders and all the best elements
of the community, and over their violent
protest appointed to office a man whom he
knew to be offensive to them?”
The governor concluded with the
statement that the law would be en¬
forced iu Georgia without fear or fa¬
vor.
_
A SWEEPING DECISION.
Judge Foster S?ays Kansay City Live Stock
Association is an Illegal Concern.
&£5U.’l*n, . Monday morning when he de
- A.
r ansftg city Live Stock association il
Jega f unde ‘ the provision of the anti
U organization of
Thewchange is an
commission men who control the sale
of live stock in Kansas City. All stock
which ente rs the city must pass
througb the hands of this orgamza
tion> judge Foster enjoins the com
i ss i° n f ro m doing business and de
m combination.
d ciare ' it an ua lawiul
PANIC FOLLOWS DISCOVERY OF
FIRE IN BELLE ELLEN SH AFT.
-
FIVE MEN KNOWN TO BE DEAD.
There Were One Hundred Miners at Work
In the Slope When the Cutus
troplie Occurred.
Shortly after the men went to work
ari ma ne No. 2, of the Bessemer Land
and Improvement company’s coal
mines at Belle Ellen, near Bloctou,
Bibb county, Ala., Monday morning,
fire was discovered far down in the
main slope.
About one hundred men are em
ployed ^, ‘ in the mine and an alarm was
once iven . A panic followed
among * the workers and in the little
town f Bel]e Elleu .
Hundreds of men, women and chil¬
dren gathered at the main entrance of
the smoking mine, while rescue par¬
ties were at once formed to relieve the
miners.
More than fifty were got out from
the various entrances without harm.
Others were overcome by smoke and
fell by the wayside. These the brave
rescuers found and dragged out, wh le
ihose at the entrance restored life to
their unconscious friends.
A scene of wildest excitement pre¬
vailed at the mine’s mouth. Women
and children were screaming and
shouting for help, and a fire brigade
was at work endeavoring to overcome
the flames.
Five men who were working about
the slope where the fire originated,
could not be reached, and it is regard¬
ed as certain that they are dead. The
missing were: Hubbard
Herman Framer, white;
Foley, white; Henry Beeves, colored;
Frank James, colored; William Fair¬
fax, colored. It is possible that two
or three others also may be in the
mines.
The fire brigade battled with the
flames all day in a vain attempt to
reach the entombed men, but at night¬
fall the fire was still burning fiercely
and efforts were abandoned. A later
telegram from Belle Ellen says the fire
is thought to have originated from an
overheated steam pipe, which ignited
gas iu the mine. A careful check is
being made of the list of miners in the
mine where the fire broke out to ascer¬
tain if possible if the death list will
exceed five. So far it is not positive¬
ly known that any others are missing.
NO REFUGEES WANTED.
Governor Russell, of N'ortli Carolina Arts
Cautiously.
Surgeon General John Hey Williams
of the North Carolina state board of
health, telegraphed Governor Russell
from Asheville Monday as follows:
“If it meets with your approbation, I
should be pleased to telegraph Marino Sur¬
geon General Wyman offering tho mountain
plateau of western North Carolina as a
refuge for refugees from tho yellow fever
stricken districts.”
The governor refers the matter to
the state board of health. He says he
does not like to act regarding it, as,
perhaps, a number of the refugees
might become destitute and have to be
supported and finally sent home by
the state.
BOUNCED NEGRO BOSSES.
Charleston Cotton Mills Experience More
Trouble With Imployees.
The managers of the Charleston, S.
C., cotton mills, where negro and
white labor is employed, undertook to
put in half a dozen negro bosses over
the white operatives Monday and the
latter hands went out.
They left the mill, making threats.
A squad of policemen was detailed to
prevent trouble, but things became so
squally that the colored bosses were
promptly taken out.
STEELCOMPANY RESUMES.
Works at Rellalre, Ohio, Gives Employ¬
ment to Many Idle Men.
After a two months shut-down and
expending half a million dollars for
the erection of a blast furnace,
plant and plate mill, the Bellaire Steel
company at Bellaire, Ohio, started the
machinery of the plant again Monday
morning, giving employment to o()0
men.
“BAD POLICY,” SAYS BACON,
^ the Ap p 0 i„tment of Colored Men to
j tIlo South
signed interview . ™
Herald, Ahe in appomtme wh»h be »J. .npart:^ .
,
^ 0 ® C ® “ onSms
a)1 a ailtag and estrange
^ “ eut ^^ Sa U P J thus !
^ h few negroes ? a,,
a are of ve y great injury
5 th0 negroes in tUe ill
0 l n 0n „ elldere(l between them and
'i n u who se friendship
• srood will thev ' are wholly depend
eat.
JACKSON ALMOST DEPOPULATED. !
CitUens of Mississippi’s Capital flurrying
Away.
Advices of Wednesday state that i
Taekson, Mississippi’s capital, is de
populated, its business houses closed,
its newspapers suspended, seven cases
of yellow fever officially announced at
its very doors with many suspected
cases at various points, an embargo on
the railroads of the state and grave ap¬
prehensions that the dread disease has
obtained a foothold in numerous parts
of the state and wild alarm everywhere.
Suoh were the conditions existing in the
middle, western and northern portions
of the state Wednesday.
The worst fears of the medical fra
ternity and the public have been
realized and the prevailing disease at
Edwards has been pronounced yellow
fever.
The state board of health has laid a
general , embargo , on travel , except out .
of the state by means ot an order
promulgated Wednesday afternoon
and addressed to all lines of trauspor
Travel from infected places is ahso
lutely barred. The bright side of the
situation is that the disease is of a very
mild type.
The exodus from the city, which
began m a small way several days ago,
has attained unprecedented proper
tio “ s '
While , the ,. state ... board , advises i • all n
who can to leave, the railroads say
they can handle the largest crowds.
The most rigid local quarantine pre¬
vails.
INVESTIGATION ORDERED.
Mr. Carter, of Engineer Corps, Charged
With Chnnglng Government Plane.
A Washington special says: The
secretary of war has appointed a board
of engineer officers, comprising Col¬
onel Gillespie and Majors Adams and
Bavmond to proceed at once to Savan¬
nah, Ga., to investigate certain reports
that have come to the war department
to the effect that the work upon the
river and harbor improvements of Sa¬
vannah river and Cumberland sound
under the charge of Captain Oberlin
M. Carter, of the engineer corps, has
not been done in accordance with the
project of the department. It is ex¬
pressly stated at the war department
that there is no statement of irregular¬
ity in the accounts of Captain Carter,
but merely a change of departure from
tho authorized plans of of the depart¬
ment.
The captain enters a most emphatic
denial that he lias done anything that
was not in the interest of the United
Stales government.
The board appointed to inquire into
the matter is composed of the ablest
men in the engineer corps. Colonel
Gillespie is president of the Missis¬
sippi river commission, stationed at
New York. Major Adams for years
was the righthand man of the chief of
engineers at Washington and is now
stationed at New York, while Major
Baymond has charge of important
works iu Pennsylvania and a Dela¬
ware section.
FLANAGAN BROUGHT TO BAY.
Murderer E.cuj.es From Ills Cell and I.
Recaptured After a Htrugg.e.
(ircftt excitement jiievuiled in i'c -
cat nr and Atlanta Wednesday over the
report that Edward I lanagan, twice
murderer, had escaped from the De
caturjail during luesday night
When Sheriff Austin went up to the
ers to carry Flanagan his breakfast
at 7 o clock Wednesday morning the
murderer was missing. An alarm was
at once raised and a search immediate
ly instituted One of the searching
parties found the murderer in another
and unused cell of the jail into which
he had mysteriously gained admit
tance and hid. When discovered
! lanagan showed fight and attempted
to brain one of the intruders.
In making the capture a desperate
struggle ensued, in which Flanagan
was finally brought to bay by a blow
on the head from a scantling m the
hands ot the village blacksmith.
MILLIONS IN GOLD DUST
Reach San Francisco on Long Belayed
Steamer from Alaska.
j on g overdue steamer Excelsior,
whjch left st Michaels, Alaska, for
{^ an Francisco some six weeks ago, but
was compe il e( i to put back to Unalaska
f or repa j rSj having broken two blades
her propeller, arrived in port Wed
neS( } a y with sixty-three passengers
an q a bout $2,500,0U0 in gold dust.
DISASTER TO SHIPS.
Terrific Storm Doe* Great Damage on the
JajJanese Coaftt.
Dispatches received at the Merch¬
ants’ exchange at Han Francisco con
firm the news of a terrific hurricane
on the Japanese coast.
The Norwegian bark Alette, which
sailed from Vancouver for Yokohama,
It and 'wl^‘wreckeT^Somf 'of^he
sailors were drowned. A part of the
cargo may be saved.
The hurricane struck heavily at Yo
kohama The British ship Olenerich,
bound for Oregon and the British
ship Lonsdale for \ ictoria, \:ej ♦
driven ashore.
RATCHFORD SAYS AN AMICABLE
SITUATION PREVAILS.
SATISFIED WITH THE RESULT.
Things Will He Serene From the Present
Until the Beginning of
Next Year.
M. ,P. Raehford, president of the
United Mine Workers of America,
gave out the following authorized
statement to the Associated Press Tues
day: about 75,000
“Today will see ram
er8 resun \ e worU iu the bituminous
{ flelds of tho oe ntral states. The
strike rallv em ls today. This is
* week of its
the of t he twelfth
It was brought to a close
at , mr t . ollve ution held at Columbus, •
Qhi n tlu , 8tU to the 11th of the
present mont h, tho ten days’ time be
ing ^ given e to allow miners and opera
to to l . olue together in Illinois and
Wegt Virginia to meet the price fixed
oents ton in Pittsburg, 5(5 cents
in Ohio and Indiana and the same to
t . outinue until the end of December.
The miui situa tion is not likely to
be disturbed again until the beginning
of next year, when they hope to bo
able to settle the question amicably
and without the necessity of a strike.
“I am well satisfied with the agree¬
ment reached and feel that it is the
greatest victory gained by trades
unions in years. While they have
done tho striking, trades unions and
organized bodies have supplied tho
necessaries, without which the miners
could not possibly succeed. It was a
victory for organized labor and not
for any particular trade, and we want
our friends who have helped us to
feel that it. is their victory as well as
ours. 1 feel very grateful for the as
sistance given us by the American
Federation of Labor, and by the
kindly disposition shown at. all times
by Mr. (Jumpers and the members of
his executive committee.”
Mr. Batcliford was asked as to the
situation in West Virginia and Illi¬
He said:
“The greatest difficulty in the way
of an advance in the Illinois district
is the fact that contracts were taken
last spring, based upmi a low mining
rate, as they were in Pittsburg and
elsewhere. But this is a matter that
we cannot be responsible for; it. is a
matter of business to the operator him¬
self. No man has a right to sell a
man’s labor one year in advance with¬
out consulting the laborer.
“While we have always deferred to
theclttimsof men along those lines, the
time has come when no further consid¬
eration can be given them, because
the wages paid to the miner is below
the living point and the preservation
of life takes precedence over business
affnirh.
“My advices from West Virginia are
to the effect that our miners who are
standing firm, are well pleased with
^ ftment re0C hed and evince a
.^termination to fight their battle to
£ Their puipose is to bring
and operators ‘t of the state
ther iu a join convention, that a
unif()rm mining prifie ma y be fixed and
^ i(1 for the aarae ve i„ of coal, and a
re , atiye ifie for ot her veins with¬
in ^ Htate . ln Hhort , fix a mining
ate thaf wi „ iye to West Virginia
^ ( . iti op p 0r t un ities and
,, .
a mining rftte that will give
^ tnuitwH is the object of
minerB , organizations everywhere,
We ftr0 workiuf? to bring operators of
thg sevcral Hta tes together with this end
ju yiew Th(mgh our effor ts have been
futile, we will continue to advocate
t , jat u believing there is such a
way ^ to keep down strikes and disputes
wh h ar(> of a( i vanta ge to neither side
an( j that is for the miners and opera
tors i n te re8 ted from the various states
to meet annually, mutually fix prices
for each district that are fair and just
and each party to the agreement to ob¬
serve it faithfully until a subsequent
agreement takes its place. During the
eight years this system was in vogue,
strikes and disturbances of a general
character were unknown, and the
causes which gave rise to them ean
now be removed so that the operators
interested will see their interests in
this light.”
BIG FIRE IN COLUMBUS.
Large Factory ami the Southern’* Freight
I»ej>ot In Ashe*.
One of the most disastrous fires from
which Columbus, Ga., has suffered
since the burning of the Rankin house
block twenty years ago occurred Mon¬
day night when the lumber yard,sash,
blind and door factory of Butts &
Cooper, together with the Southern
railway freight depot, went up in
smoke.
In addition to the factory and
depot two Louisville and Nashville
freight cars loaded with cotton were
consumed. The loss will aggregate
810,000, it is estimated.